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The Plum Tree
- De: Ellen Marie Wiseman
- Narrado por: Madeleine Lambert
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 529
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 474
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 474
"Bloom where you're planted," is the advice Christine Bolz receives from her beloved Oma. But 17-year-old domestic Christine knows there is a whole world waiting beyond her small German village. It's a world she's begun to glimpse through music, books - and through Isaac Bauerman, the cultured son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for.
Yet the future she and Isaac dream of sharing faces greater challenges than their difference in stations. In the fall of 1938, Germany is changing rapidly under Hitler's regime....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good story, terrible narration!
- De Tyler en 01-30-14
- The Plum Tree
- De: Ellen Marie Wiseman
- Narrado por: Madeleine Lambert
Good read..but incredible
Revisado: 08-01-19
The author writes well and keeps you interested but parts of the plot are ludicrous and she has a lot of historical facts wrong. Christine's meeting with Hitler and the description of him are ridiculous. The Kommandant of Dachau confessed to a female prisoner that he is secretly working against the Nazis?? Christind pulls her Jewish boyfriend out of a prisoner column in full presence of SS guards?? Her father survives the battle of Stalingrad, escapes from a Russian POW camp and walks all the way back to Gernnany?.. I could go on. A lot I of people died in Dachau, but it was never an extermination camp. People didn't starve in Nazi Germany until the very end of the war. One of the reasons for Hitler's popularity was that he eliminated unemployment and created prosperity. The main starving happened in the 3 years AFTER the war.
The audio reader should have taken the time to pronounce the German words right. She didn't even pronounce mother and father correctly. It's like pronouncing the French Moulin Rouge like Mauling Rowge.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 26 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,610
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,989
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,009
It's 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat: smuggling himself out of Hitler's Prague. He's looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn's own Sammy Clay, is looking for a partner in creating the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book. Inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams, they create the Escapist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A World I DON'T Ever Want to Escape From.
- De Darwin8u en 06-12-12
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- De: Michael Chabon
- Narrado por: David Colacci
A Book For Lovers Of Comic Books
Revisado: 07-11-17
This is a lengthy book about 2 young guys designing comic books and inventing an anti Nazi superhero. It takes place during the early years of WWII. I tried hard to get into the subject but gave up half way through. It would have helped if I was a comic book fan or were Jewish, but unfortunately neither is the case.
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Austerlitz
- De: W. G. Sebald
- Narrado por: Richard Matthews
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 212
A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion.
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2 out of 5 stars
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To each their own
- De Sebastian Romero en 04-23-20
- Austerlitz
- De: W. G. Sebald
- Narrado por: Richard Matthews
Moving story extremely well narrated
Revisado: 06-10-17
This is a moving story of a man who was brought as a child to the UK researching the past and the fate of his parents. The novel is very well written, literal and beautiful in its details. The weakest part is the end, which is too abrupt. The narration is outstanding.
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The North Water
- A Novel
- De: Ian McGuire
- Narrado por: John Keating
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,494
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,364
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,355
Behold the man: stinking, drunk, and brutal. Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaler bound for the rich hunting waters of the arctic circle. Also aboard for the first time is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money, and no better option than to sail as the ship's medic on this violent, filthy, and ill-fated voyage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Reader / Listener Beware
- De Kristine A. en 12-23-17
- The North Water
- A Novel
- De: Ian McGuire
- Narrado por: John Keating
Riveting Tale Of Murder and Survival
Revisado: 05-18-17
This is a thrilling story of a whaling ship in the arctic during the 19th century. of evil. murder. greed and survival in horrendous cold, it us well written and the narrator is professional and good.
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